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Hour to Hour: Real Stories Inside Northwestern Memorial Hospital

The Hour to Hour videos show unique behind-the-scenes look at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Videos are Quicktime format and roughly 88 MB in size WMV Format video - 30 minutes.

• Neurosurgery and Women's Health
• Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute

Your Total Health

Watch the following three minute videos to learn how Northwestern Memorial Hospital can help improve your total health.

Videos are Quicktime format and roughly 10MB in size.

• The Neuroendovascular Program at Northwestern Memorial: Two Specialties - typically competing for patients - join forces at Northwestern Memorial Hospital to enhance diagnosis and treatment of cerebrovascular conditions such as stroke, aneurysms and carotid artery disease.
  
  
• The New Northwestern Cardiovascular Institute: Get an introduction to the new heart program at Northwestern Memorial that is launching Chicago into a new era of heart care and will make the city home to one of the top cardiac programs in the country.
  
  
• Incontinence in Women: Confront a problem that causes thousands of women to suffer in silence and learn about a variety of innovative treatments options.
  
  
• Breast Reconstruction: A Northwestern Memorial physician develops a new technique that eliminates the need for mastectomy and is allowing some women to keep their own breasts after large tumor removal.
  
  
• Stem Cells for Cancer: For certain cancers, stem cell transplants are a life-saving treatment. Now, Northwestern Memorial provides a kinder and gentler "mini transplant."
  
  
• New Hips: For patients of varying ages suffering from disability and hip pain, innovations in orthopedic materials and much less invasive surgical procedures are helping patients quickly return to their old activities and regain quality of life.
  
  
• Islet Cell Transplant: An experimental treatment that could free type 1 diabetics from lifelong insulin dependence is expanding. The procedure is called islet cell transplant and aims to reverse the effects of type 1 diabetes, which prevents the body from making energy-producing insulin.
  
  
• Heart Valve Disease: A leaky heart valve may not sound like a major problem, but it can be like a ticking timebomb, even when there are no symptoms. At Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the latest imaging technology allows doctors to more easily find and diagnose these problems and repair them less invasively.
  
  
• Minimally Invasive Lung Cancer Treatment: More than 160 thousand Americans will die from lung cancer this year. Physicians at Northwestern Memorial Hospital are working to save lives through innovative and less invasive techniques. Northwestern Memorial is one of only a few centers nationwide to routinely offer minimally invasive lobectomy, in which using three to four small incisions, small instruments and a tiny camera, physicians remove the cancer-stricken lobe of the lung.
  
  
• Atrial Fibrillation: Options to treat atrial fibrillation, which can lead to strokes, range from medications, to catheter ablation to the Maze operation.